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Description: | In June 1918 the Government bought agricultural land at the west end of Slough and on the north side of the Bath Road and established a large motor repair depot for the purpose of repairing and selling on army transport vehicles brought back from service abroad. The Depot became seen as an example of official extravagance and was nicknamed the 'Dump'. In April 1920 the Government Surplus Disposal Fund sold the Depot and its contents to a company called the Slough Trading Company at a cost of £7,000,000. By 1925 the original task of repairing military vehicles was completed and it was decided to continue with the development of buildings and land on the site for letting to other factories and companies. This created the Slough Trading Estate as known today. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | The Depot ; The Dump ; Slough Trading Estate ; Government Motor Depot Trading Estates | Temporal: | start=1918-01-01; end=1918-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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